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put down to

verb

Definitions

  1. To ascribe

    To ascribe; to assume to be the cause of a situation.

    • I put the high crime rate down to the high unemployment.
    • Out in the ground, meanwhile, it was particularly disappointing to hear former England captain Andrew Strauss put the febrile atmosphere down to “people who don’t normally come to Lord’s”.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for put down to. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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